In a fit of passion.
A great passion has no partner. [ Lavater ]
Principle is a passion for truth. [ Hazlitt ]
The complement of love is passion. [ George Sand ]
Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]
The ungovernable passion for wealth. [ Ovid ]
Tenderness is the repose of passion. [ Joubert ]
I own I feel traces of an old passion. [ Virgil ]
Great passions are incurable diseases. [ Goethe ]
Without passion there is no geniality. [ Mommsen ]
The withered frame, the ruined mind.
The wreck by passion left behind,
A shrivelled scroll, a scattered leaf,
Seared by the autumn blast of grief! [ Byron ]
Steel assassinates; the passions kill. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. [ South ]
Passion is the infatuation of the mind. [ South ]
The passions are the voice of the body. [ Rousseau ]
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. [ Pope ]
The ruling passion conquers reason still. [ Pope ]
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]
In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not. [ Milton ]
Passion makes the will lord of the reason. [ William Shakespeare ]
The essence of poetry is will and passion. [ Hazlitt ]
What is reason now was passion heretofore. [ Ovid ]
Nothing is well said or done in a passion. [ Proverb ]
Lose not thyself, nor give thy humors way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]
Where passion is high, there reason is low. [ Proverb ]
Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]
One master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. [ Pope ]
Who is strong? He who subdues his passions. [ Talmud ]
The passions do not die out; they burn out. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
The strongest passion which I have is honor. [ Bailey ]
No man's body is as strong as his appetites. [ Tillotson ]
Reason has never mastered an ardent passion. [ Regnier ]
Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age. [ Frowde ]
We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
Every great passion is but a prolonged hope. [ Feucheres ]
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Flowers whose wild odors breathe but agonies. [ Byron ]
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly. [ Montesquieu ]
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]
Give me that man That is not passion's slave. [ William Shakespeare ]
A moment's thought is passion's passing knell. [ Keats ]
There is an evening twilight of the heart.
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. [ Fitz-Greene Halleck ]
I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. [ Pope ]
We are never like angels till our passion dies. [ Thomas Dekker ]
He's a wise man that leads passion by the bridle. [ Proverb ]
There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]
In thy heart there is a holy spot,
As 'mid the waste an isle of fount and palm,
Forever green! - the world’s breath enters not.
The passion-tempest may not break its calm,
'Tis thine, all thine. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion. [ William Shakespeare ]
He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. [ Proverb ]
Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion. [ Proverb ]
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. [ La Fontaine ]
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. [ Goethe ]
Passion joined with power., produces thunder and ruin. [ Proverb ]
Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]
Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]
Govern your passions or otherwise they will govern you. [ Horace ]
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]
In the human breast two master* passions cannot coexist. [ Campbell ]
Choler is the only unruly passion that justifies itself. [ Proverb ]
The motions of passion and of conscience, are two things. [ Proverb ]
Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. [ Moore ]
Passion and deliberation never set their horses together. [ Proverb ]
As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason. [ Sir T. Browne ]
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility. [ Amiel ]
No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion. [ Proverb ]
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation. [ Schiller ]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels. [ Claudian ]
He that shews a passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him. [ Proverb ]
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. [ Goethe ]
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. [ Cicero ]
It is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished passion. [ Catull ]
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. [ Confucius ]
Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it. [ George Sand ]
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. [ Edwin Forrest ]
Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion. [ Gladstone ]
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. [ Joubert ]
Conscience is the voice of the soul; passion, the voice of the body. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. [ Sheridan ]
There is more merit in subduing a passion than in avenging an injury. [ Mascaron ]
When passion enters at the fore-gate, wisdom goes out of the postern. [ Proverb ]
Great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion (love). [ Bacon ]
The passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet. [ Dryden ]
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. [ Michelet ]
Whose every little ringlet thrilled, as if with soul and passion filled! [ Moore ]
The duration of passion is no more in our power than the duration of life. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]
Art is a gift of Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly passion. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. [ Chamfort ]
The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. [ French ]
There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts. [ Bacon ]
It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. [ Lamartine ]
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. [ Shenstone ]
A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity. [ Lavater ]
The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]
In her first passion, woman loves her lover; in all the others, all she loves is love. [ Byron ]
On such a theme it were impious to be calm; passion is reason, transport, temper, here! [ Young ]
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. [ Henri Beyle ]
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. [ Ramsay ]
Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. [ William Penn ]
Envy is so shameful and cowardly a passion, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. [ Proverb ]
Passions are likened best to floods and streams; the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. [ H. W. Shaw ]
To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]
The mind hath not reason to remember that passions ought to be her vassals, not her masters. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. [ Collier ]
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [ Balzac ]
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. [ Balzac ]
Love is the passion of great souls: it makes them merit glory, when it does not turn their heads. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The rudest man, inspired by passion, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that caprice lasts a little longer. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. [ Government of the Tongue ]
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. [ John Ruskin ]
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. [ Colton ]
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. [ Richard Steele ]
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
A friendship will be young after the lapse of a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. [ Nigu ]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. [ Hazlitt ]
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. [ Dr. Watts ]
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. [ Bovee ]
All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit - almost the only innocent and unpunished passion. [ Sydney Smith ]
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]
The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. [ Addison ]
A passion for flowers is, I really think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
I doubt whether the ferocity of the battlefield is as merciless as is the remorseless onslaught of unscrupulous passion. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy: its despotism in desires is called passion. [ Rivarol ]
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. [ Thomas Paine ]
There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. [ Nelson Mandela ]
Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs. [ La Roche ]
When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]
Art needs solitude or misery or passion. Lukewarm zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil. [ Alex. Dumas ]
Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done; passion knows more than art. [ Baron ]
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love today, than the felicities of heaven afar off. [ Bovee ]
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. [ Hume ]
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Not the mountain ice, congealed to crystals, is so frosty chaste as thy victorious soul, which conquers man, and man's proud tyrant, passion. [ Dryden ]
True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. [ Johnson ]
Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner. [ Jacobi ]
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. [ Southern ]
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. [ Hume ]
Speech is a laggard and a sloth; but the eyes shoot out electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. [ Horace Smith ]
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]
Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. [ Boyle ]
To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Discouragement is a passion, the most dangerous of all: it takes from us all our arms, all our forces, and abandons us without pity to the snares of voluptuousness. [ Alfred Mercier ]
A really grand passion is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the only use of the idle classes in the country. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Literature consists of all the books--and they are not many--where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. [ John Morley ]
Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. [ Napoleon ]
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. [ Emerson ]
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]
Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]
Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]
Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. [ Goldsmith ]
It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]
The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]
The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Rhyme is the elementary art of the poet; but at the same time he must possess that vehement passion for melody that buoys his speech into song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life move in a melodious rhythm. [ Bentivoglio ]
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]
Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]
Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]
If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong. [ Henry Home ]
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion. [ Thomas Paine ]
Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]
To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]
How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]
Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]
Vulgar habit people have nowadays of asking one, after one has given them an idea, whether one is serious or not. Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect is the British intellect. And on the British form of intellect the illiterates play the drum. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises. It is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world, and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride? [ Steele ]
In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken,
answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart,
she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too?
he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper,
adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]
Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]
You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]
I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]
The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]